Oh wow. You are soooooooo going to download this. Elisabeth Pezouvanis, alias "Wire McQuaid" from Sweden, founder of Game Over, a band that does metal Nintendo covers with some AWESOME guitar playing AND amazing lyrics AND damn good singing as well sent me an email regarding this project of hers which has apparently been around for three years and which I'd never heard of. And dammit, people, when I heard this mix, I was liking it. Something fierce. As in it easily makes my top five, at least of the moment. As in stop reading my gibberish and grab it pronto. Beautiful guitar arpeggios floating in a spacious lo-fi sound soup with immaculate fret noise reverberating off into the distance might give you the wrong idea, as soon after - intro'd appropriately by a bell to signal the start of the fight - this mix TAKES OFF. Original lyrics rock, guy singing can actually sing, and there's vocal harmonizing to boot. Then they shout 'Punch Out!!' and there's a badass guitar solo. Dammit, I'm so psyched on this mix. These guys and gals rock hard and deserve worldwide attention and praise, and no, I'm not exaggerating. Tell your friends, tell your grandma, tell your next-door neighbor and anyone you can grab hold of for at least two minutes who doesn't call for help or police assistance. Visit their homepage and send them letters of adulation. (Exit Gushing Praise Mode). Seriously, this is a grade A+ mix that does everything right. Cheers and massive kudos to Elisabeth and the rest of the band for contributing this - I truly hope its appearance on OC ReMix brings them new fans and gets this excellent track out to as many people as possible.

Discussion

I just LOVE this style of metal. The lead is not overbearing
(except during the solos, of course), and the guitar sounds very
clean for a change... The Game Over theme used as an intro was an
efficient and smart idea.

I also enjoy the singer's accent, it has an odd quality of being
slighty "funny" and wickedly cool at the same time. Damn, this
track is too amazing, can't wait to hear other tracks from Game
Over.

Even in the face of overwhelming support for this song, I still
have to stick my guns and voice my discontent with it.

If you looked up cheesy in the audio encyclopedia, you'd
stumble across this song. I don't know, to me boxing should
exude toughness, and these lyrics just don't reflect that.
"Apprehensions becoming real" has no place in the squared
circle. You don't have time to think of something that deep
when your eye socket is being shattered from a left hook.
These lyrics are way too deep and cheesy for this sort of
thing. The gratuitous use of "Let's keep it clean, Punch
Out!!" doesn't help much either.

I know quality can be an issue but this needs more backbone
musically. It sounds way too flimsy. As far as 80's metal
goes, Manowar would frown on this as "false metal."

I put a challenge to you. Rewrite this song from the perspective
of a 'true' boxer in Swedish.

I've loved this song since I first heard it, but as a drummer,
I have complaints, mainly that the drums sound really, really
fake, I'm not sure if they used a drum machine or an electronic
set,

I thought I should just let you know that Game Overs first demo
was indeed recorded with programmed drums. Their new demo is
recorded with live drums, and of course it sounds great! Hyrule´s
Angel, found on this site, is a taste of what´s on their latest,
"Nesperado".

To comment on Little Mac´s Confession, it´s certainly an immortal
classic that defines the "Nintendo Metal" genre... Too good to be
true.

I've loved this song since I first heard it, but as a drummer,
I have complaints, mainly that the drums sound really, really
fake, I'm not sure if they used a drum machine or an electronic
set, but I'm guessing it's the former due to my next complaint,
which is this....where are the Tom fills. I hear cymbals, base,
and snare, but no tom work at all. There are parts of this song
that scream for it, but nothing happens.

Nevertheless, this song kicks ass, and is great, one of, if
not, the best I've heard on this site

though a largely insignificant matter, is there an unspoken rule
that a track requires tom work?

I've loved this song since I first heard it, but as a drummer, I
have complaints, mainly that the drums sound really, really fake,
I'm not sure if they used a drum machine or an electronic set,
but I'm guessing it's the former due to my next complaint, which
is this....where are the Tom fills. I hear cymbals, base, and
snare, but no tom work at all. There are parts of this song that
scream for it, but nothing happens.

Nevertheless, this song kicks ass, and is great, one of, if not,
the best I've heard on this site

Even in the face of overwhelming support for this song, I still
have to stick my guns and voice my discontent with it.

If you looked up cheesy in the audio encyclopedia, you'd
stumble across this song. I don't know, to me boxing should
exude toughness, and these lyrics just don't reflect that.
"Apprehensions becoming real" has no place in the squared
circle. You don't have time to think of something that deep
when your eye socket is being shattered from a left hook.
These lyrics are way too deep and cheesy for this sort of
thing. The gratuitous use of "Let's keep it clean, Punch
Out!!" doesn't help much either.

If you looked at the title... and listened to the lyrics, and put
it into the cotnext of the "get up! get up!" meledy at the end,
you'd realize that this was a song about failure.. specifically
Mac's.

And we've ALL been there before playing this game. So the lyrics
fit (even if they are a bit deep.. though maybe one can assume
Mac is looking back on all this after his loss?)

How can one say anything that could properly appraise this remix?
No word has been invented (and may never be) that could
adequately represent the musical masterpiece known as "Little
Mac's Confession"...

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